Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Country: Cuba
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Movement: Post-revolution Cuban Cinema
The Twelve Chairs is a 1962 Cuban comedy film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The plot is based on Ilf and Petrov's 1928 novel of the same name. It was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. After a socialist revolution seizes her country, a wealthy woman refuses to surrender her riches and secretly conceals her jewels inside one of twelve dining chairs. Following her death, her nephew uncovers the secret, but by then the chairs have been nationalized and scattered among different owners. Determined to claim what he sees as his inheritance, he sets out to find each chair in hopes of recovering the hidden treasure.
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